Homework

1. Scroll through Instagram with your kids and talk about what you see. Point out
racist/sexist/ableist memes.
2. Do a media audit at home. What’s in your Hulu queue? What’s on your bookshelf? Who writes
the stories, who benefits from the stories, who is missing from the stories?
3. Racism is like climate change: we inherited this mess and have a responsibility to help clean it up.
How can your family help? What’s your racial justice equivalent of recycling, using less water, or
taking public transit? What can you do daily/weekly/monthly?
4. Identify your superpowers. How can you use them in anti-racism work?
5. Movie night! Go see a movie directed by a BIPOC.
6. Amplify the voices of BIPOC folks. Share your platform. Ask the BIPOC folks in your life how
they would like you to support them.
7. Spend that privilege! Support BIPOC-owned businesses.
8. Make time for reflection and self-care. This is a marathon, not a sprint.
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Teaching Tolerance: Teaching Hard History podcasts - appropriate for teens

This Book Is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons on How to Wake Up, Take Action, and Do The Work, Tiffany Jewell

So You Want to Talk About Race, Ijeoma Oluo

Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: And Other Conversations About Race,
Beverly Daniel Tatum
The History of White People, Nell Irvin Painter

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, Michelle Alexander

The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America, Richard Rothstein
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America, Ibram X. Kendi

How to Be an Antiracist, Ibram X. Kendi

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Racial justice with Black narrative: Ijeoma Oluo, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Angela Davis, adrienne maree brown
White Privilege: Beverly Daniel Tatum, Tim Wise, Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack, Peggy Macintosh,
1989. What Does it Mean to Be White, Robin DiAngelo, 2012. White People, Jose Antonio Vargas, 2015,
Seeing White podcast, A Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America, Ibram Kendi
Indigenous Native: Project 562, Matika Wilbur, Tracy Rector, Gyasi Ross, Haunani-Kay Trask
Multiracial/ Mixed Race: Raising Mixed Race, Sharon Chang
Transracial Adoption: Angela Tucker, Rhonda Roorda, Joel Peterson, Beth Hall; Outsiders Within: Writing
on Transracial Adoption
Queer, Trans, Feminist: Black Lives Matter, Audre Lorde, Margaret Cho, Laverne Cox,
Revolutionary Mothering
Education Equity: More Than A Score, Jesse Hagopian, 2015., Dr. Beverly Tatum
Housing Segregation & Public School Impacts : “Choosing a School for my Daughter in a Segregated
City,” June 9, 2016 New York Times, Seattle Racial Restrictive Covenants, 1920-1948. Race the Power of
an Illusion, 2003
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Autistic people of color: All the Weight of Our Dreams, 2017

Disabled parent perspective: Meriah Nichols, Meriahnichols.com
Youth with Disabilities: Yo! Disabled and Proud
Disability in Media: Disability Visibility Project (Partnership with StoryCorps)
Disability Justice: Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund - civil rights law & advocacy
Parent Advocates: Council of Parent Attorneys and Advocates Copaa.org
Local Self-Advocates: SAIL (Self Advocates In Leadership)
Disability Advocacy for POC: Open Doors for Multicultural Families
Parent Support: The Arc of King County; Parent to Parent

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